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 they could; the great hall was quite full of people, and yet at one time nearly everybody was dancing.

Monday, October 2. There is the July overland with your two letters to me. A great deal of public news in the warlike way, and it looks horribly as if our dear Overland were to be interfered with. I think if the Pacha is anything of a gentleman, he will not interfere with our letters; I am sure | you and I never did him any harm, and it is a bore that our personal comfort should be interfered with by that sort of uninteresting war. I don’t care about Egypt, do you? and I always take the Pacha and the Sultan to be the same man, and if they are not, I do not know which belongs to what, and Egypt is altogether sandy, and sphinxy, and tiresome, and if Waghorne is not to be king of it I do not care what happens.

Saturday, 7th. Mrs. brought her boys yesterday to see Freddy. He walked round R just as we should round an elephant. ‘Oh! So